I'm with DA on this as well. It is clearly spelled out in my last wishes that if I should die while diving I want people to speculate, guess, criticize me, chastize my ghost, and if it is a result of my own stupidity make that abundantly clear to ANYONE who reads about it. Do not cover up, minimize, or contribute some false sense of me being a better diver than I was. The Cozumel thread was a perfect example or stupid going bad and not wanting people to find out the real reason for what happened at first. As a result people canceled trips, got scared of down currents that did not exist, and actually held up the participants as someone to be admired for actually surviving the dive. That was probably the worst thing for diving.
It is one of the reasons that this forum was overhauled a while back and the Passings forum created. So that we could speculate, offer up scenarios, and LEARN from those events and even hypothetical events when the facts were not available. I know for a fact that divers have read of the events here and as a result altered or stopped practices that were not smart. They have sought out training to deal with situations they or others might put them in that risked their safety. There have been a couple posts dealing with friends, acquaintences, etc not being happy with the tone or content of threads here and that is understood. I have had a couple friends die diving. Some were members here and I only knew them via SB but I feel confident that all of them would have wanted others to learn from their accidents and in so doing perhaps preserve a life.
The truth and speculation often hurts some people. And that is why there is a back button, little "x" in the corner of the screen, and a whole slew of buttons to click that will take them somewhere else.
